Of photos, ad spots and YouTube…

So today began with taking photos. Lots and lots of photos. The principal of St Paul’s is keen to rework the huge brick ‘wall’ out the front of the school, that displays the school (and church) name. So that means research, and that means photos. Photos of signs he likes, photos of signs I like, and photos of anything which gives me ideas. Stay posted – I promise I’ll post a photo of the completed sign when it’s done! The aim is to have it completed over the holidays, so that when parents arrive back next year, it’ll look fantabulous. Well, that’s what I’m aiming for, at any rate!

Also on the cards was sorting out who owns the signs in the entryway from the southern-most car park at Morayfield Shopping Centre, as we’d (well, St Paul’s would, at my recommendation) like to advertise there. Trouble is, AdShel say they belong to Ooh! Media, and Ooh! Media say they belong to AdShel. So a visit to the site was in order, with the result that I’ll need to add AdShel to my list of people to call.

Home again, I got busy correcting the proof of the St James ad that The Hervey Bay Independent had sent through, ready for next week’s issue, then I uploaded their 30 second TV ad onto the YouTube channel I set up for them.

Finally, it was a case of promote it on facebook, respond to some emails and some comments on goodoldtalk.com, and call it quits for the day. Oh – after blogging, of course! And now to a lovely evening and weekend of pouring over the St Paul’s Yearbook proof that arrived today…

The *new* gmail and Australia Post

As I write, today has so far been all about emailing. I decided to jump the gun and switch across to the ‘new look’ for my main gmail account; and while I was at it, sync my 3 accounts into one, with the idea of saving time in the future. I’d also like to retrieve the email from my non-gmail email account that’s been playing up significantly over the last couple of months, but that wasn’t a possibility today.

Another interesting discovery I made today regards Australia Post. I am in the process of organising a DL advertisement to be delivered to certain suburbs in St Paul’s catchment area, and whilst organising the booking of said deliveries, was informed that 1) from booking day to delivery day takes around three weeks, meaning that had I booked today, delivery would be December 15 at the earliest, and 2) every year on December 1, Australia Post increases its prices from 15.5 cents per flyer to around double that amount. Rather interesting information! Suffice it to say, we’re now planning on booking a Jan 16 delivery day. So our DL’s will then arrive in people’s mailboxes the day after our signs come down from their AdShel spots in Morayfield Shopping Centre, where they will have been for a month. Pretty cool!

Later today I’ll finalisng the Weekly Updates for tomorrow’s midday deadline, and also talking billboards and Open Days in Hervey Bay. Oh – and discussing the potential inherent in QR Codes too, of course…

Til tomorrow, dear readers!